This free document can be used for new learners to give them the basics of numbers, alphabet pronunciation and some good websites for learning French. This is targeted at adult learners but may also give teachers some pointers to interesting websites.

This free French resource is great to explain dates and seasons to students.

This is a workbook aimed at adult / A level / GCSE learners who would like to specifically work on their verb conjugations. There are 25 verbs in the free workbook ready to be filled in. It can be used as a revision tool or a reference booklet. There are spaces to complete the following tenses: Present Near Future Perfect Imperfect Future Conditional It encourages independent learning and can be used in class or given as homework This is the first workbook used by my adult learners and they found it really useful. A second, more complete workbook is also available.

This will help your learners (adults and children) to learn and consolidate key phrases for beginning their learning journey . Phrases such as bonjour, je m’appelle, j’ai 21 ans etc. There are also key questions which can also be useful in class. The document is a powerpoint document.

This will help your learners (adults and children) to learn and consolidate key phrases for talking about parts of the body and for describing illnesses to a doctor or a pharmacist. More Conti-style exercises can be bought in a bundle of documents in my shop.

This free French resource gives the basics of telling the time in French

This free document can be printed out and laminated so that students can refer to it during class - maximising the use of the TL in the classroom

These activities are based on the Gianfranco Conti method of teaching, Included are sentence builders on weather, time and dates, pyramid translation, no snakes no ladders exercise, a samply homework exercise as well as an oral ping pong exercise. I have used the course book Facon de Parler 1 as a basis for this exercise but tweaked the vocabulary a bit, so you can still use the activities without having the coursebook. I have also included a sample basic lesson plan to give you ideas on how to use the activities. I use this with adults but you can equally use the resources with children beginning the topics of weather, dates and time.

This is a series of activities I have used with great success with my Intermediate French (B1) adult learners. I used it over a series of 3 x 2 hour lessons, starting with the sentence builder and doing lots of speaking and listening activities with whiteboards (see Gianfranco Conti/ Steve Smith’s blogs on these) to embed the vocab initially. Then we move on to activities such as the oral Ping Pong and Pyramid Translations to further automise and embed the key language. The dialogue activity also encourages the learner to use new vocab by recycling the vocab in the sentence builder. The final activity was the dialogue cards where the learners are encouraged to speak more independently, either using their own knowledge and/or with support from the sentence builder. There is also a homework exercise which the students can do at home. My learners have found these exercises to be extremely useful to build knowledge and confidence and I hope yours will too. Bon courage!

Download, print out and laminate these flashcards to help your adults or beginners to learn key vocab on personal information. There are 21 questions with appropriate answers to help your learners interact with each independently. The cards are in English and French.

This is a workbook aimed at adult / A level / GCSE learners who would like to specifically work on their verb conjugations. There are 70 verbs in the workbook ready to be filled in. It can be used as a revision tool or a reference booklet. There are spaces to complete the following tenses: Present Present Subjunctive Perfect Imperfect Future Conditional Plus the Imperative It encourages independent learning and can be used in class or given as homework

There are several resources for adult learners of French to practise their speaking skills to make a doctor’s appointment by telephone and to describe symptoms to a doctor. There are extension exercise for students who are more ambitious in their learning. I have included a file which includes lots of phrases to describe illnesses and also parts of the body. There are also some Conti-inspired exercises - there is an oral ping-pong exercise and a pyramid translation exercise. I have also added a no snakes no ladders game to further test your learners’ vocab acquisition. In all there is enough content for 4-6 hours of teaching for adult learners